Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Ailsa Crag | | To Ailsa Rock | | John Keats (1795–1821) |
| | | HEARKEN, thou craggy ocean pyramid! | |
| Give answer from thy voice, the sea-fowl’s screams! | |
| When were thy shoulders mantled in huge streams? | |
| When, from the sun, was thy broad forehead hid? | |
| How long is ’t since the mighty power bid | 5 |
| Thee heave to airy sleep from fathom dreams? | |
| Sleep in the lap of thunder or sunbeams, | |
| Or when gray clouds are thy cold coverlid? | |
| Thou answer’st not, for thou art dead asleep! | |
| Thy life is but two dead eternities,— | 10 |
| The last in air, the former in the deep; | |
| First with the whales, last with the eagle-skies,— | |
| Drowned wast thou till an earthquake made thee steep; | |
| Another cannot wake thy giant size. | | | | |
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